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Re: Rendezvous on windows/.Net.



Ray,

I can't speak for all the Rendezvous implementations, however I'm the author of Howl and am somewhat familiar with Rendezvous For Windows by Apple. Typically, programs that are receiving multicast dns traffic on port 5353 turn on the reuse address option on the socket. Apple's code does this, and so does Howl. I'm fairly certain you'll find that most implementations will do the same. In so doing, multiple multicast dns implementations on the same machine can coexist peacefully. Inefficiently, but peacefully.

Hope that helps,

Scott

On Jul 12, 2004, at 3:14 PM, Ray Molenkamp wrote:

Hi,

For a commericial project i'm asked to use rendezvous on windows
now i wrote my own implementation using rawsockets in C# (not the
cleanest code but it works) but i'm a bit worried about the following:

To recieve rendezvous traffic my application should bind to port 5353
to my knowledge only one application can bind to a port.

I however have seen serveral other implementations of the rendezvous
protocol on windows there is:

- Howl (http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/)
- msdnresponder by novell
(http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?mdnsresponder)
- Rendezvous for windows (techpreview) by apple
(http://developer.apple.com/macosx/rendezvous/index.html)
- Probably a bunch of other ones I don't know about.

Now given the fact i have totally no control on what is or gets installed on
the
end-user/customer's pc. How can i make sure i'm able to deliver properly
working
software? is there a common way to deal with these things? Should i *force*
my
customers to use my implementation and remove all other ones? or should i go
through great lengths of effort to support any implementation I can find?!


In other words:

Is it just me or is this really cool technology starting to look like a real
big mess
on windows?


--Ray Molenkamp
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